A house with an impressive view of Lake Moreno

Sunday 04th May 2025 08:03 AM

May 4, 2025
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“Over 50 years, gently, the circumstances collaborated so that the steamy yearning was reality,” he says The architect José Orolwhile traveling his house, his dream fulfilled. Lying on the rock and at the foot of Lake Morenothe house is intertwined with the trees.

José Orol and his wife, Inés, built this house during the pandemic. He navigates in the lake; She, nothing there every day.Daniel Karp

José grew a few steps from hereson of a painter mother, writer and singer, and an environmental father, lawyer and fisherman who, in 1945, traveled to Bariloche for her honeymoon. “They had southern vocation,” he says convinced. Fifteen years later, they bought the house where they raised their family and where José soaken his passion for the environment.

They sought that the house had a low visual impact. “I feel the need for architecture to play on a humble plane in front of the landscape,” José shares.Daniel Karp

When the time came, José left to Buenos Aires to study architecture and, there, he found the inspiration that would flourish many years later. “The seed of this project was planted in 1976, in La Escuelita, Ernesto Katzenstein and Pancho Liernur during the classic exercise that proposed to think about a ‘home for artist in a singular site’”.

With this huge cypress plank that was left after drawing plates to cover the entire house, they made a table that they enjoy outdoors.Daniel Karp

Our architect returned to Patagonia and in 1979 he set up his own study, Orol & Asociados Architecture; and also fThe College of Architects of Bariloche unless, It was part of the value of the Llao Llao Hotel and developed community and educational projects in the rural area. Installed for years on the outskirts of Bariloche, he never imagined to live again on these shores, where with Inés they enjoy a house that smells like wood and feels like the lifelong project.

José avoids the parallel lines, so unusual in nature. The house is entered from above, and there is an elevator that has taken from the living room to the dock.Daniel Karp

The rajas take advantage of the direct sun that impacts the upper part of the counter.Daniel Karp

Arch. José Orol, owner of the house and project leader

The structure of the house is metal, with oregon pine mezzanines and cypress coatings. The income is up. The ladder railings suggest the sails of a ship. Daniel Karp

When the staircase down, the environments follow each other like a waterfall until the view appears, imposing, after the huge inclined window of the living room.Daniel Karp

Integrated, social spaces look abroad: “daily life takes place here, where we contemplate, hear, reflect, share and eat.”

For the kitchen, José chosen furniture veneered in gray and wood. Daniel Karp

The table and chairs are from his family’s house: “My father had a very fine eye for the choice of objects; they spent more than 70 years, and remain in force,” he says proudly.Daniel Karp

The house has southern orientation and is in a narrow peninsula that gets into the water shortly after passing the llao llao. “We had to sacrifice sun to have a view, but without a doubt it was worth it.”.

The living window has an inclination of about 20 °: “When you see it, it tells you that everything happens down.”Daniel Karp

Several works that José’s mother drew and painted show off the walls.Daniel Karp

They repeat the social space formula: cedar, oregon pine and railings with curved cutsDaniel Karp

This elevator leads from the living to the spring on a slow trip between the trees.
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“The first two years we use it as a weekend and vacation house. But we realized that we can spend the whole year here,” José shares.Daniel Karp

The Moreno Lake from the home dock.Daniel Karp